• gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org
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    11 hours ago

    In german and english, the comma in numbers is swapped. So the number 123.45 in german would be written as 123,45 while ironically, the thing that we used to separate thousands from hundreds is also swapped. So one-thousand-four-hundred would be written as 1,400 in english but as 1.400 in german …

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      And even more fun is that some German speaking countries do it like the US. Like Switzerland for example…

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      11 hours ago

      On top of that, you would pronounce 678 as six-hundred-seven-ty-eight in english … guess what it is in german:

      Sechs-hundert-acht-und-sieb-zig (literally six-hundred-eight-and-seven-ty)


      i’m actually trying to change this point specifically because it irks me … but i am sadly alone with it.